East Lake Palace, Red Fort.

This Indian-style castle built for Princess Nisha is now truly full of charming Indian style due to the arrival of the princess and her twenty Rajput maids - of course only the charming side, not the dark side.

Because there were only twenty Rajput maids of the Kshatriya caste who followed Princess Nisha into this red castle. The Rajputs live in northwest India and are said to be descendants of princes. Their caste is in the Kshatriya caste.

He is also considered noble among the Li people and has more Aryan ancestry.

Therefore, the 20 maids brought by Princess Nessa have three-dimensional facial features, graceful figures, wheat-colored skin, and look very healthy, and all of them are good at singing and dancing.

However, Zhu Cixiang came to the Red Castle for three days in a row, not to enjoy their singing and dancing, but to give the princess an exam... Although after the first meeting, Zhu Cixiang had already decided to include Nisha into his harem.

, but you still have to take the exam well. If you don’t take the exam well, how will you know how talented this Indian female poet is?

Emperor Zhu must let Princess Nisha take a good lead, let alone the whole world, at least let the middle and upper classes of the Ming Dynasty know that their Ming army is not good at women, and they don't pay much attention to women's virtues. What they care about most is

Women's talent.

It is said that a woman is virtuous if she has no talent, but this does not apply to the emperor's family...

Today is already the third day of Princess Nisha’s personal college entrance examination (it should be an independent enrollment, right?). The interview, written test, and oral test (spoken Chinese) have all ended. Princess Nisha’s results are not particularly ideal, at least she herself is not.

Satisfied, because in the completed subjects, she only scored a total of 445 points (total score of 460 points), and the 15 points she lost were all deducted for Chinese.

Although Nisha can write very beautiful Chinese poems, and her hairpin handwriting is also beautiful. But her level of ancient Chinese is limited after all. If she is allowed to choose her own topics and there are other people's poetry collections to refer to, she can write beautiful poems.

Poetry. But if you ask others to write questions for the test, there is no poetry collection to refer to, and the level will drop immediately! So I only scored 85 points...

As for mathematics, philosophy and military science, because they are allowed to answer questions in Arabic, they are all full marks - she did not answer all questions in Arabic, but used Arabic and Chinese bilingual. Some of them could be answered in Chinese, so

Use Chinese. If that doesn't work, use Arabic.

It seems that Emperor Zhu who proposed the question still underestimated this female academic from India...

Today, Princess Nisha is going to show off her martial arts and music skills - the princess's painting skills are average. After all, Tianfang Sect prohibits painting, and her identity is not suitable for dancing for people to see. However, she can use many kinds of musical instruments and can also

Can sing in Urdu and Persian.

Because she had to take the horse riding and archery exams, the female top student changed out of her long white sari skirt and put on a Chinese-style archery jacket. She looked really heroic.

The examination location is a large racecourse at the foot of the southern slope of Moshan Mountain. It is also part of the Red Fort and was also selected by Zhu Cixiang as the examination venue for the upcoming Jinling Women's University martial arts examination.

Targets and wooden fences were erected for the horseback shooting test (to prevent knights from getting too close to the target), as well as various obstacles for the horseback riding test.

At the end of the wooden fence, there are more than a dozen standing trees of varying heights, with straw targets used for testing swordsmanship (sword skills) stuck on the top of the standing trees.

Zhu Cixiang has already sat down on the high platform set up on the side of the racecourse. Accompanying him are Pan Yuchen, the governor of the East Factory, and Wang Qi, who has been appointed as the admiral of the bodyguard army again after many years. Both of them are veteran generals in the army, and now

Although they have both taken a back seat, their vision is still there - the two of them have been selected as the chief examiners for the entrance examination of Jinling Women's University, responsible for testing martial arts.

There were also dozens of aunts wearing arrow jackets at the scene. They were all widowed and childless female relatives of the new army recruited from Denglai, Fengyang, and Runing. They all had some exposure to martial arts, and they became palace maids.

The female guards of concubines and princesses.

They are brought here to serve as invigilators and first aid in the examination room - riding horses, archery and swordsmanship are more dangerous after all!

Of course, the subjects of the martial arts examination also take safety issues into full consideration.

Whether it is horse riding, archery, or swordsmanship, they are all divided into two levels: difficult and easy. If the candidate chooses the difficult level, then she is likely to get full marks (30 points, the three subjects add up to 90 points, and another 10 points

It is a physical point, you must wear armor to take the exam, and you must complete the three subjects in one go to get it). If the candidate chooses the Yi level, then she can only get 20 points at most, and she cannot get physical points. The three subjects can only get a maximum of 60 points.

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Princess Nisha chose difficult subjects, but gave up the physical points, that is, after taking a test, she had to take a break before continuing to take the next subject.

You can bring your own horses and equipment for the exam. Nisha brought several fold-ear horses from Tianzhu, all of which she had trained well, and she selected the best one to use as her exam horse.

She also brought her own bows, which were three Persian bows that were made almost like works of art. What she prepared for the sword test was a very gorgeous tawa scimitar with a curved blade and beautiful patterns on the surface.

The gripping part of the knife handle is obviously bulging and has an S-shaped guard, which seems to be based on the design of a Western knife.

The princess, who was carrying a bow and arrows and a scimitar, knelt down on one knee in front of the Emperor of Heaven. Zhu Cixiang looked at her and felt very satisfied, so he smiled and said to her: "Nisha, you already have 445 points.

.....It’s enough to become my concubine! So don’t be nervous, relax and take the exam. After the women’s college exam is over, I will hold a grand wedding for you!”

As a rule, a wedding should not be held when a concubine enters the palace, but Nisha has a special status, so of course she must enjoy preferential treatment.

Emperor Zhu is planning to hold a wedding for Princess Nisha in the Red Fort after the women's college exam!

Princess Nessa looked at this troubled emperor with deep affection and said, "I will definitely work hard and will never disappoint His Majesty!"

"Okay!" Zhu Cixi nodded, "I'll watch you take the exam right here!"

As he spoke, he nodded to Eunuch Pan next to him. Pan Yuchen stood up, saluted Zhu Cihong, and then announced loudly: "The first subject, the riding trial begins! Your Highness, Princess, please mount the horse!"

The exam has officially begun, and now is the first question...

...

When Princess Nesa started her martial arts exam, copies of the papers she wrote (all the Arabic contents were translated by Zhu Cibing) had been secretly handed over by Zheng Jiangong to Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Sen and Zheng Du.

"This, this, this... what are these? Why can't I understand them?"

The one who couldn't understand was Zheng Zhilong. He was holding a math test paper from Princess Kaonisha. Old Zheng always thought that he was good at calculating accounts, so he must be good at math. But now he can't even understand the test paper... No

There is a question that he can do!

"Abba," Zheng Jiangong said with a frown, "this arithmetic paper is a bit difficult..."

"Is this a little more difficult?" Zheng Zhilong glared at him, "All the children have passed the exam?"

"This..." Zheng Jiangong thought for a while, "How many questions can you do?"

"How many questions are there?" Lao Zheng said with sweat breaking out on his forehead. "Are the other papers easier?"

Zheng Sen said: "Chinese is easy, just write poems and write lyrics."

Is it easy to write poems and lyrics? Zheng Zhilong said in his heart: I am so smart but I can’t do it!

"Can you pass the exam?"

"Yes! But..."

"But what?" Lao Zheng asked.

"But the Chinese test paper is specifically for Princess Nisha. Other candidates will not take the Chinese test, but French!" Zheng Sen said, "Our children are all fine."

"What else?" Lao Zheng asked again, "What is the military science test?"

"Military studies are easy," Zheng Du said, "very easy... simple infantry and cavalry platoon tactics, basic fortification techniques and ballistic techniques, even a child can master them."

Zheng Zhilong glared at him fiercely, "This is called simplicity? You graduated from the Army Lecture Hall! Of course you can do it, but can your daughter do it?"

"She, of course she can't do it!" Zheng Du shook his head repeatedly.

Zheng Zhilong patted the table: "Why don't you hurry up and cram the Buddha's feet? You need some teaching! You can't let the daughter of the Wu family compete with you!"

"Abba, Wu Ahuan can't do the questions taught in the martial arts hall, right?"
Chapter completed!